[11] The first single is the opening track, "The Base", which spent 7 weeks on the Mexico Ingles Airplay chart, peaking at #43.

[12] Banks was recorded in New York and Connecticut with producer Peter Katis.

Banks has received mostly positive reviews from music critics.

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 65, based on 23 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".

[13] The track listing was announced by NME, on August 6, 2012.